International Health Humanities Network Membership

Sue qualified as a nurse 1982 in Cambridge and then moved to London to work as a District Nurse. In 1986 she moved up to the North East and worked as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse for a number of years before moving into higher education.

Sue first attended a creative writing workshop with Julia Darling in 2004 and her life has never been the same since. Finding magic in words Sue has studied the MA in Poetry at Newcastle University and has led a number of writing workshops across the North East particularly related to health and well-being.

One of her visions (she has quite a few!) is to ensure that the creative arts and health care practice are more closely linked together for the benefit of all patients, carers, families and staff who work in health care.

Sue has written and presented at Conferences about the power of poetry in health care and is an active member of Lapidus.